Gunnar Berger

Founder, CEO.

Previously, Head of Product @Amazon/AWS.
CTO @ Citrix.
Director of Research @ Gartner.

[Gunnar Berger @gunnarwb]

A 20% pop on a massively inflated IPO is crazy to me.

[Gunnar Berger @gunnarwb]

This took us 1 hour.

30 minutes of which was finding the right/working hardware in my tech bins.

Yet my kids school forbids them from using AI.

[Gunnar Berger @gunnarwb]

My kids constantly ask me to turn the slide on in the pool. (can only be done with an app!). The company sells a $600 remote to fix this.

I sat one of my kids down in front of AI. "Can we design a way to create a button that turns the slide on and off?"

[Gunnar Berger @gunnarwb]

We plug everything in, Claude Code deploys everything over SSH, the one thing I was missing is a $20 adapter RS485, that wasn't in my stash. We order it on Amazon.

Meanwhile everything is deployed and we are pressing the button watching the webui switch the slide on/off.

[Gunnar Berger @gunnarwb]

Not gonna lie Fable 5 feels like OpenClaw in that it just goes and eats up your tokens.

Love it

[Gunnar Berger @gunnarwb]

Have you seen my mother drive?

[comma @comma_ai]

There is no software yet that is capable of driving better than a human.

[Gunnar Berger @gunnarwb]

But what really sucks is all those other racers that served the penalty DURING the race, i.e. Russel who got another penalty for not serving the first FALSE penalty correctly.

FFS F1

[Gunnar Berger @gunnarwb]

F1 is a f'ning joke.

The f up the timing in the pit at Monoco. All of us watching thought something was wrong, its just statistically improbable that all those teams would have made the same mistake.

A week later they admit it. Good for Gasly (3rd now) Harjar loses his podium.

[Gunnar Berger @gunnarwb]

My https://t.co/BQfuNFUl6H plan has a 12k deductible PER PERSON. in an average year my insurance never pays a dime. So 100% Mark Cuban, give em hell.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

This isn't accurate. Most people have deductibles, anda higher out of pocket max.

During the deductible phase, you absolutely pay out of pocket and should be able to price shop, and count against your deductible the best price you can find.

Where the shopping analogy falls apart is AFTER you hit your deductible and OOP max. Then you can spend other people's money on your care. Distorting the entire market

[Gunnar Berger @gunnarwb]

I just replaced my diode in my hot water heater.

Umm everyone, go do this. It's $30 on Amazon and takes a few minutes.

Don't be me.

[Gunnar Berger @gunnarwb]

@kevinolearytv OpenAI is last IMO (except for their image generation).
Anthropic wins on real enterprise work (coding).
SpaceX/Grok has a huge advantage in data collecting (X/Starlink)
Google has their moat, AI just gets forced into their tools.
Long term OpenAI gets acquired by Microsoft

[Gunnar Berger @gunnarwb]

is "ware" a dated term to you for a business name? Netware, VMware?

I ask because I'm being forced to change my startups name. I want to go with something "ware" but my cofound is saying its dated. Thoughts?

[Gunnar Berger @gunnarwb]

I have a window at my house that cost $15,000.

It's a pane of glass, heated sand, tech we've had for what 1000 years?

Im typing away on my phone which is essentially magic. As a kid this phone was sci-fi. Yet costs $500.

I will never understand windows.

[Tom Goodwin @tomfgoodwin]

Trying to shop around for some Windows, about $200,000 of them for a house.

How come Windows are one of those areas where it's all an absolute mess , of 1,000 manufacturers, intermediaries, lead gen dead ends, scams, and a total disregard of the consumer?

How has nobody invented " tell us how big you want the windows and we will tell you how much it costs and sell you them" as a novel concept.

How does any of this mess exist since the internet or globalization.

[Gunnar Berger @gunnarwb]

Don't stop there. Make them post their costs too (if they are non profit) full transparency!

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

For years, hospitals kept Americans in the dark about the true cost of care. Families made medical decisions without knowing the price—and too often got hit with bills that drained their savings.

That ends now.

Under President Trump’s leadership, HHS is enforcing hospital price transparency with real consequences. @DrOzCMS and I have a simple message for hospitals: Post your actual prices. Come into compliance immediately—or face serious consequences.

[Gunnar Berger @gunnarwb]

@RandPaul I think the issue with your plan is simple: power. If we actually did this then Congress wouldn't have the power to fund random stuff that gets them votes. They will never vote in any way that doesn't give them more power.

[Gunnar Berger @gunnarwb]

1. Haircuts (not mom cuts)

2. Kraft Macaroni!

3. New clothes (not sure if this counts as a luxury, I never got them)

4. McDonald's! (Might as well be Disney for us, we'd go the day after Christmas, it was awesome)

5. Any food that wasn't cooked by my mother.

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

FOR THOSE WHO DIDN'T GROW UP PRIVILEGED, NAME SOMETHING YOU THOUGHT WAS A LUXURY WHEN YOU WERE A KID

[Gunnar Berger @gunnarwb]

The idea that we are running out of land to build them is idiotic.

Take a flight from New York to LA. 90% of the time when you look down you won't see a soul.

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

Okay this is genuinely insane.

SpaceX just unveiled a satellite whose only job is to run AI. Not internet. Not GPS. Just compute, floating in orbit.

It's called AI1, and the reason behind it breaks your brain.

AI data centers on Earth are hitting a wall, not a chip wall, a physics wall.

They need staggering amounts of power and water just to stay cool, and we're running out of grid and land to build them.

So Musk's answer is: stop building them on Earth.

In orbit, the sun never sets. Free power, 24/7. No water for cooling, you just radiate heat into the vacuum of space. The two things choking AI on the ground barely exist up there.

And here's the wild part: Musk says it's easier to build than a Starlink satellite. Strip out the complex antennas and it's "a lot of solar cells, a radiator, and some laser links."

One AI1 carries the compute of an Nvidia GB300 rack, the same hardware data centers fight over down here.

AI1 is just the first one. The plan is a constellation of up to a million of them.

And the timing isn't an accident, SpaceX goes public this week at a ~$1.75 trillion target. This isn't a rocket company anymore. It's positioning itself as the power grid for AI, in space.

The race for AI compute just left the planet. Literally.

@SpaceX

[Gunnar Berger @gunnarwb]

Truly something to be proud of

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

The US Debt Clocks counts up (by a lot).

Florida’s Debt Clock counts down.

More than 50% of the debt retired in the past 8 years!

[Gunnar Berger @gunnarwb]

I don't understand the mentality of people who can record a disaster and not run to see if anyone is hurt and needs help. Instead they just keep recording.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇵🇭 More footage has emerged from the Philippines, showing the intensity of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck earlier today

These kids had a lucky escape

Writer: Ian